Word: swiss
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rainier could scarcely afford to buy Onassis out, and he shuns expropriation; as unbefitting the genteel nature of his establishment. Nonetheless, at the company's annual meeting last week, a Swiss lawyer known to be close to the palace launched an attack that suggested a Royal Solution. Onassis' control of such a large block of stock, argued the lawyer, is illegal under the company's charter, which limits individual shareholders to 10,000 apiece. Onassis nominally complies with this by holding most of his stock in the names of 48 Panamanian shipping companies, but Rainier...
Died. Othmar Hermann Ammann, 86, master bridge builder, a Swiss-born engineer who pursued a lifelong vision of graceful suspension bridges linking major U.S. arteries, designed and built New York's George Washington, Triborough and new Verrazano-Narrows bridges and played a major role in the construction of San Francisco's Golden Gate and Delaware's Memorial bridges; after a brief illness...
...sales to U.S. business. Last year the company supplied the Government with $27 million worth of instruments and precision optical equipment, shipped $24 million worth of instruments to U.S. industrial firms, hospitals, research laboratories and universities, and sold another $16 million worth to such overseas customers as a Swiss drug company, a Japanese steelmaker and a Spanish brewery. Perkin-Elmer operates nine domestic plants, owns or is affiliated with manufacturers in Britain, West Germany and Japan...
...bulldozers and heavy-duty trucks churning up the slate-grey earth as they carried dirt and rocks to the growing wall. Roosma, 25, had reason for satisfaction: the Mattmark project would be completed by October, and its turbines were already generating electricity. He had got on well with his Swiss employers and with the hundreds of workers on the project-mostly Italian...
Alpine Silence. In twenty seconds the work camp was buried a hundred feet beneath a blanket of ice. No sound came from the injured or trapped. There was only the Alpine silence, broken by the rippling of the Viege River. The dam itself was untouched. Next day, Swiss soldiers and rescue workers clawed at the mass in a drenching rain, once interrupting the search to run for their lives when word came that cracks in another large section of the glacier threatened to dump more ice onto the valley floor. Groaned one engineer: "This is like chipping away...